Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd since 1979 to 1987, is a former world number one from the United States. He won 18 Grand Slam singles titles and three doubles titles. He was the world number one singer in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1981. Overall, Evert won 157 single championships and 32 double titles.
Evert reached 34 Grand Slam finals, more than any other player in professional tennis history. He holds the record for most consecutive years (13) to win at least one Grand Slam title. In the singles, Evert reached the semifinals or better 52 of the 56 Grand Slams he played, including the semi-finals or better than 34 consecutive Grand Slams coming in from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open. Evert never lost in the first or second round of a single Grand Slam tournament and lost in the third round only twice. In Grand Slam playing the women's singles, Evert won seven record championships at the French Open and co-recorded six championships at the US Open (tied with Serena Williams).
The percentage of Evert's career victory in a single match of 89.97% (1309-146) was the highest in the history of the Open Age tennis, for men or women. On clay, his career percentage win in a single match of 94.55% (382-22) remains a WTA record.
Evert served as president of the Tennis Women's Association for eleven calendar years, 1975-76 and 1983-91. He was awarded the Philippe Chatrier and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Later Evert is a coach and now an analyst for ESPN and has tennis and active clothes lines.
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Evert started taking tennis lessons from his father Jimmy Evert when he was five years old. He was a professional tennis coach who had won the men's singles title at the Canadian Championships in 1947. In 1969, he had become the number one girl under-14 in the United States. Evert played his first senior tournament that same year, reaching the semi-finals in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, losing to Mary-Ann Eisel in three sets. (Over the years, this is the record for the farthest players ever achieved in his first senior level tournament.A record was broken when another Floridian, Jennifer Capriati, reached the final of the tournament in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1990 at the age of 13.) 1970, Evert won sixteen and national championships and was invited to play on an eight-player claycourt tournament in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 15-year-old Evert beat FranÃÆ'§oise DÃÆ'¼rr in the first half in straight sets before beating Margaret Court 7-6, 7-6 in the semi-finals. Court is the number 1 player of the World and has just won the Grand Slam in singles. These results led to Evert's election for the US Wightman Cup team, the youngest player ever to compete.
Evert made his Grand Slam tournament debut at the age of 16 at the 1971 US Open; he accepted the invitation after winning the national and sixteen national championships. After an easy straight-sets win over Edda Buding in the first half, he faced American No. 4 Mary-Ann Eisel in the second half. Evert saved six match points - with Eisel at one stage serving at 6-4, 6-5 (40-0) in the second set - before going on to win 4-6, 7-6, 6-1. He made two further comebacks from one set down, against DÃÆ'¼rr and Lesley Hunt, both experienced professionals, before losing to Billie Jean King in the semi-final in straight sets. The defeat ended 46 consecutive wins built through professional and junior touring events. This winning streak includes his first match with and wins over King, Virginia Wade and Betty StÃÆ'¶ve.
In 1973 Evert was runner-up at the French Open and Wimbledon Championships. A year later he won both events during his 55th consecutive winning streak, which included eight other tournament wins. He ended the year with a 100-7 game record, winning 16 tournaments including two Grand Slams, having become a finalist at his first Australian Open, and having for his fourth year in a row to reach the semi-finals at the US Open. He was voted number one by the end of the year by leading tennis experts and authorities on the day - except Bud Collins - for his closest rivals, King and Evonne Goolagong, who each have six titles including the Grand Slam (King the US Open) and Goolagong the Australian Open).
At the time, he was engaged to Jimmy Connors, who won the Wimbledon men's singles title that year as media attention surrounded the summer of the "Love Match" of tennis. They partnered in a mixed doubles event at the 1974 US Open, ending as runners-up. Their engagement was short-lived due to be canceled later that year. However, their relationship again and again continues over the next few years.
Over the next five years, Evert is the number 1 player in the world. In 1975 he won the second French Open and the first of four direct US Open titles by beating Cawley in the final three sets. Also in November of that year, the official WTA computer ranking system was instituted, with Evert being the first No. 1. In total Evert logged 260 weeks at number one. Until February 2013 he holds the record for the oldest woman to rank WTA number 1, reaching that distinction after retaking the venue for the final time during the week of November 24, 1985, at the age of 30 years and 11 months. It is ten years and three weeks after he first reached the number one spot. The record lasted for 27 years and 3 months until Williams surpassed it in 2013.
The following 1976 season held a unique distinction for Evert, as this was the only time in his career where he won the Wimbledon and US Open titles in the same year. He defeated Goolagong Cawley in three thrilling final sets on the grass and then killed him on clay in the Forest Hills, losing just three games. But he lost to Goolagong Cawley in the final of the Virginia Slims Championship. Overall, Evert won 26 of 39 matches with Cawley. His 1976 show won his Sports Sports of the Year title of Sports Illustrated, one of four occasions (King, Arthur Ashe, and Williams) whose award was awarded to tennis players.
Evert's dominance of the women's game and his calm and courteous manner on the field earned him the nickname "Ice Maiden" tennis. Throughout his career, Evert was ranked number one in the world at the end of seven different years by Tennis Magazine, by World Tennis Magazine and also the majority of other great tennis experts from 1974 to 1978, and in 1980 and 1981. In addition, Evert has so far record the best match in each of the seven years.
The years 1977 and 1978 saw Evert continue to dominate the women's game, winning two more US Open, the last being played in Forest Hills on clay (1977) and the first on a hard court at Flushing Meadow (1978). He won 18 of the 25 tournaments, with a 126-7 game record, failing just once to reach at least a semi-final during that span. Of particular note is that Evert missed the French Open during these years (as well as 1976) to play at King's World TeamTennis. Another notable event was the loss of three sets of Evert to Wade in the 1977 Wimbledon semi-final. It was the 100th year of Wimbledon, to coincide with Silver Jubilee Queen Elizabeth II as king.
New rivals for Evert tennis dominance appeared on the screen in the second half of the 1970s in the form of Martina Navratilova. Though often doubling partners, and good friends off the field, fierce field competition is one of the biggest in tennis history. Evert has the best of their previous meetings, at one point holding a 30-18 advantage. However, ahead of the 1982 season, Navratilova overhauled her game and fitness, and improved her racket technology, allowing her to build 13 successive wins that culminated in the 1984 US Open, about what came to be known. as Super Saturday. They enter the final with 30 wins each. Navratilova overcame the first set deficit and pro-Evert mass to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Eventually the competition saw the last game record 43-37 in favor of Navratilova, who also led 14-8 in Grand Slam and 10-4 games in the Grand Slam final.
Despite its success on all surfaces, it is on clay where Evert is the most dominant. Beginning in August 1973 he won 125 games in a row on clay, losing just eight sets all over; a run that continues to be the benchmark among male and female players. The rally broke out on May 12, 1979 in the semi-finals of the Italian Open, when Evert lost to Tracy Austin in the third set without a win after Evert lost the game points to 5-2 in the final set. Evert said after the game, "Not having a record will take some pressure from me, but I am not happy to have lost it." Evert rebounded with another clay court tournament reaching 64 games (including titles in 1979 and 1980 French Open) before ending with a semi-final loss to eventual winner Hana MandlÃÆ'kovÃÆ'¡ at the 1981 French Open (record 189 wins in 191 games) on clay from 1973 to 1981). Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling had the same dominance of the clay court from 1935 to 1939, winning the French Championship in three consecutive years (not playing there for two years) and only incurred one loss in clay during that 5-year period.
Evert's record of seven French Open singles titles stood for 27 years until they were broken in June 2013 by Rafael Nadal. He still holds the record for female players. He also shared the record for most of the Grand Slam claycourt tournaments (10 with seven French Open and third US Open played on clay in 1975-77) with Nadal (ten French Open). His three wins came in three final sets against Navratilova. In 1975 Evert defeated Navratilova to defend his title from the previous year 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. In 1985 Evert won 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, a victory that earned him the No. 1 computer ranking. 1 World for the fifth and last time.
For Evert, beating Navratilova in every slam is represented by defeating the best player, giving her the last two most satisfying "last time" wins: The French Open 1986, at 31, she won her last Grand Slam title. Navratilova in three sets and the 1988 Australian Open where she easily sent Navratilova in the semi-finals in two sets to reach the final 34 and her final in the Grand Slam final at the age of 33.
Evert won at least one Grand Slam singles title a year for 13 consecutive years, from 1974 to 1986. During this period Evert did not participate in the Australian Open held from 1975 to 1980 and in 1983, or the French Open from 1976 to 1978. Reasons Evert's inability at the Australian Open during his greatest years of dominance (he was ranked No.1 in the world five of his six years absent from events between 1975 and 1980) is a relative decline in the status of this Grand Slam tournament during that period, making it the top American player and Europe tends to stay away. The absence of Evert from the French Open in 1976, 1977 and 1978 reflects the allure of Team World Tennis and the generally not-so-important meaning is the top performer attached to traditional Slam events in the early years of the professional era.
Between September 1971 (his Grand Slam debut at the US Open) and June 1983 (12th visit to the Wimbledon Championship), Evert never failed to reach at least the semi-finals of his 34 Grand Slams. The string, however, broke out in the third round at Wimbledon in 1983 when the All England Club rejected Evert's request to postpone his match with Kathy Jordan to recover from food poisoning. The defeat also ended his bid to become the fourth Grand Slam title holder simultaneously, as Evert later became the holder of '82 Australian, US, and '83 French titles. In 56 Grand Slam matches that went from 1971 to 1989, Evert lost in the semi-finals only four times (1983 Wimbledon 3rd round; 1987 US Open quarterfinals; 1988 French Open third round; 1989 US Open quarterfinals).
In total, from a record of 34 Grand Slam finals reached, Evert won 18 singles Grand Slam titles: seven at the French Open (women's record), six in the US Open (open era record, male or female, tied with Serena Williams), three at Wimbledon, and two at the Australian Open (both on the grass). In addition, Evert won three Grand Slam doubles titles, in France in 1974 with Olga Morozova, there in 1975 with Navratilova, and again with Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1976.
Evert's overall Grand Slam record was 297-38 (.887): 72-6 at the French Open, 94-15 at Wimbledon, 101-13 at the US Open (a record for most single-game wins in history, male or female) , and 30-4 at the Australian Open (never failing to reach the final). Evert faces Navratilova in the final 14 Grand Slam events, with Evert losing 10 of the meeting. (Navratilova beat Evert at least once in each final of four Grand Slam events, while three of Evert's four victories are at the French Open and fourth at the Australian Open.) In their eight semi-final match, their record stands in four wins each. Evert beat Navratilova in the semi-finals of the US Open (1975), Wimbledon (1976 and 1980), and the Australian Open (1988) but lost to Navratilova in the US Open semifinals (1981), Wimbledon (1987 and 1988). ), and the French Open (1987). In the semifinal round, each player won twice on the grass, once hard, and once on clay.
Evert played a reduced schedule in 1989 and retired from a professional tour after the US Open. During his career, he collected 18 Grand Slam titles (at that time, open-era record, male or female), won 154 singles titles (at the time, a record for men or women) and 32 doubles, he held the most. His record in the final was 157-72 (.686). He reached the semi-finals in 273 of the 303 tournaments he entered. Evert won the WTA Tour Championship four times and helped the United States win the Fed Cup eight times. Evert's last match was a 6-3, 6-2 win over Conchita MartÃÆ'nez in the 1989 Fed Cup final.
Rivalry
During his career versus his chosen rivals Evert is: 40-6 against Virginia Wade, 37-43 against Martina Navratilova, 26-13 against Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 24-0 against Virginia Ruzici, 23-1 against Sue Barker, 22-0 against Betty StÃÆ'¶ve, 22-1 against Rosemary Casals, 21-7 against Hana MandlÃÆ'kovÃÆ'¡¡, 20-1 against Wendy Turnbull, 19-7 against Billie Jean King (winning the last 11 games with only two sets defeat), 19 - 3 against Pam Shriver, 18-2 against Kerry Melville Reid, 17-2 against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, 17-2 against Helena SukovÃÆ'¡¡, 17-3 against Andrea Jaeger, 16-3 against Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat, 15-0 against Olga Morozova, 13-0 against FranÃÆ'§oise DÃÆ'¼rr, 9-4 against Margaret Court, 8-9 against Tracy Austin, 7-0 against Mary Joe Fernandez, 6-3 against Gabriela Sabatini, 6-5 against Nancy Richey Gunter ( winning the last 6 games), 6-8 against Steffi Graf (lost in the last eight games) and 2-1 against Mo nica Seles.
Awards and acknowledgments
Evert was selected as an Associated Press of the Year Women's Athlete on four occasions and was the first female athlete to be the sole recipient of the "Sportswoman of the Year" award in 1976. In April 1985 he was voted "The Largest Sports Athlete in the Last 25 Years" by the Women's Sports Foundation. Evert served as President of the Tennis Women's Association during 1975-76, and from 1983 to 1991.
In 1995 he was the fourth player voted unanimously into the International Tennis Hall of Fame after a worldwide vote of 185 sports journalists while 1999 saw Evert ranked No. 1. 50 among the Greatest North American ESPN athletes of the 20th century. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine named its fourth in the list of 40 Biggest Players in the TENNIS Era.
In 2012, the Tennis Channel polled players and experts to determine the 100 best players of all time, in which Evert ranked ninth overall, and the fourth highest among women (finishing behind Graf, Navratilova, and Court in that order.) In June 2013 Evert was awarded a special award from the International Tennis Hall of Fame. They presented their golden rings in recognition of his outstanding achievements both on and off the tennis court.
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Personal life
Evert was born in 1954 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Colette (nà © e Thompson) and Jimmy Evert, and was raised in a devout Catholic family. He is a graduate of 1973 from St. Louis. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale.
Jimmy is a professional tennis coach, and tennis is a way of life in his family. Chris and his sister Jeanne became professional tennis players; their brother John played tennis on a scholarship at the University of Alabama and then at Vanderbilt University, and Drew's brother got a tennis scholarship to Auburn University. Youngest sister Clare is playing a tennis scholarship at Southern Methodist University. Chris, John and his sisters, Jeanne and Clare, all won the title at the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl in Florida.
Before he won his first Grand Slam tournament, Evert signed a contract with Puritan Fashions to certify the sports line. The company's president, Carl Rosen, thinks so highly that he names the desired racehorse in his honor. The horse Chris Evert then won the Filly Triple Crown in 1974, elected as Eclipse Award for Filly 3-Year-Old, and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In the 1970s, Evert's romance with top man Jimmy Connors captured the public's imagination, especially after they both won the 1974 singles title at Wimbledon. Evert and Connors also occasionally play mixed doubles. In 1974, they became runners-up at the US Open. They got engaged when she was 19 years old and the wedding was planned for November 8, 1974. Her romance story did not last and the marriage was canceled. In May 2013, Connors wrote in his autobiography that Evert was pregnant with their child and he unilaterally decided to end the pregnancy. Evert replied that he was "deeply disappointed that he [Connors] used the book to misinterpret personal problems".
In 1979 Evert married British tennis player John Lloyd and changed his name to Chris Evert Lloyd. After his affair with British singer and actor Adam Faith, the couple split up, but reconciled and recorded their marriage in the biography of Lloyd On Lloyd by Carol Thatcher. The couple divorced in April 1987.
During the 1987 US Open, the diamond line bracelet fell to court. He stated about this, "I dropped my tennis bracelet", and since then the diamond line bracelet has been called a tennis bracelet.
In 1988, Evert married two Olympic ski athletes, Andy Mill. They have three sons: Alexander (1991), Nicholas (b. 1994) and Colton (b 1996). On November 13, 2006 Evert filed for divorce. The divorce was completed on December 4, 2006 with Evert paying Mill a settlement of US $ 7 million in cash and securities.
Evert left Mill to marry her third husband, Australian golfer Greg Norman, on June 28, 2008 in the Bahamas. On October 2, 2009 they announced they split up after just 15 months of marriage. Their divorce became final on December 8, 2009.
Current job
Evert operates a tennis academy with its name in Boca Raton, Florida and helps coach the Saint Andrew high school tennis team. She contributed to Tennis magazine, where she is also a publisher. In June 2011, he joined ESPN as a tennis commentator for the Grand Slam tournament. In 2015, he launched a line of tennis and active clothing in collaboration with Tail Activewear called Chrissie by Tail.
Career statistics
Grand Slam singles tournament single
- Evert retired in September 1989 after playing in the US Open, at the time he was ranked 4th in the world.
Records
- This entry was reached in the Open Tennis Era.
- Records in bold show unmatched achievements.
- Since Evert was selected not to participate in Grand Slam tournaments, the terms "consecutive" are not correct. In 19 professional tennis seasons Evert competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year just six times.
See also
Note
References
Further reading
- Amdur, Neil; Evert, Chris (1982). Chrissie, My Own Story . New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBNÃ, 0-671-44376-3.
- Howard, Johnette (2006). Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Their Extraordinary Epic and Friendship duet . New York: Broadway. ISBNÃ, 0-7679-1885-1. Ã,
- Wind, Herbert Warren (13 October 1986). "The Sporting Scene: Especially about Chris Evert Lloyd". The New Yorker . 62 (34): 117-145.
External links
- Chris Evert at the Women's Tennis Association
- Chris Evert in Fed Cup
- Chris Evert in the International Tennis Federation
- Chris Evert at the International Tennis Hall of Fame
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